Associations to the word «Schist»

Wiktionary

SCHIST, noun. Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates.

Dictionary definition

SCHIST, noun. Any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne